Word: drum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bass Drum...
...reaction to the self-praise of the Watergate period, such stylish writers as Lewis Lapham and Murray Kempton have lately put down U.S. journalism as not worth the penny that newspapers once cost. The latest lesson comes from Mark Harris, onetime reporter and now a successful novelist (Bang the Drum Slowly), who argues that the press is incapable of contributing to public enlightenment and is thus superfluous...
...summit will make a difference. It showed that inflation, though the nation's primary economic concern, is not the only one. Policy is going to have to be broader than merely banging the drum for the "oldtime religion" of monetary and fiscal restraint. Though the battle against inflation will not be abandoned, economic policy will likely be taking on added dimensions, notably those dealing with unemployment, supply bottlenecks and the problems of the poor. Murray L. Weidenbaum Professor of Economics Washington University St. Louis The writer was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for economic policy during the Nixon Administration...
...about face. Its latest effort, When the Eagle Flies, is highly reminiscent at least structurally of the Barleycorn sessions in that essentially it is the three man Traffic performing, with the exception of Roscoe Gee on bass. One final change is that of Jim Capaldi back to his drum...
Explicit Suggestion. The Butte, Mont., high school marching band was on hand to honor Knievel, a native son. The pretty drum majorettes were immediately harassed by shirtless bikers, one of whom grabbed a majorette's breasts and explicitly suggested further contact. The girl retained her fixed plastic smile, but her eyes bulged in terror. "Lord, get that band moving!" a security officer shouted, and the band marched into the fenced enclosure tootling "Off we go into the wild blue yonder...